BTS star Jinmin slammed for wearing Hiroshima atomic bomb shirt

BTS singer Jinmin has been slammed for wearing a shirt sporting the US’ atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

As reported by Sora News 24, Kpop singer and BTS member Jinmin has been criticise for wearing a shirt commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

A photo of Jinmin wearing the controversial shirt was taken on 15 August 2017, the National Liberation Day of Korea. The date marks Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II, which returned Korea to independence from being a Japanese colony.

At the back of Jinmin’s shirt, the words “Patriotism our history liberation Korea” are printed numerous times.

The most controversial aspect of his shirt is an image of the mushroom cloud created by the atomic bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. 70,000 civilians were killed.

Japanese internet users have shared the image on social media, expressing their disapproval. Some Korean online commenters supported the Kpop star and his shirt but others were disappointed by his political stance.

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Eminem wrote the atomic bomb as a song lyrics. But Japan doesn’t say anything to Eminem.
the atomic bombing of japan signifies the liberation of korea from japan’s imperialistic rule. there’s nothing wrong with jimin wearing the shirt.T-shirt is actually not the reason. 1 or 2 years ago and for 2 sec on screen. Japan government just made a use of BTS because recently Korean court judged Korean captives during WW2 should be apologized and compensated by Japan. But Japan didn’t but even planned to make innocent artist of Korea apologize to Japan reversely. It’s so cruel and immature. The 2nd most victims of bomb were 90 thousand innocent Korean captives in Japan, criminal country of WW2. 50 thousand of them died then and only 40 thousands alive came back to Korea but still suffer with radiation disease now. So the bomb is also painful history of Korea, too. So it on the T-shirt as a history of Korean liberation day.﻿
The shirt was meant to explain the Independence Day of Korea, hence they put 2 pictures on the shirt. one is a picture of the atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud, and the other one is a picture of Korean people Hooraying at their independence day, August 15th of 1945. Those 2 pictures each symbolize the defeat of the Japanese Empire and the following Independence of Korea, and both are very commonly shown in the history textbook. Japanese haters claim that those pictures are meant to mock at the atomic bomb victims, which is distorting the truth. The picture of the cloud simply represents the end of the war. How can that be read as mocking innocent victims? Cooking up the story with the pictures without any harmful intention is very despicable. The problem is with the people who are trying so hard to mislead it as Korean people celebrating’ the ‘atomic bomb victims’ when it’s NOT. How can they drag on the ‘innocent victim’ of theirs to distort the truth? That’s a shame. The bomb ended the war, it’s undeniable. It brought numerous people freedom who were under the oppression of war criminals. Celebrating their independence cannot be separated from the end of the war. It’s sad that civilians including 70,000 KOREAN (20,000 for Hiroshima)people were sacrificed from the atomic bomb, but that’s a different story. (btw Japanese government excluded Korean bomb survivors from the atomic bomb survivor relief law with the reason that Korean survivors don’t reside in Japan, even though many of the victims were bombed while working as the forced laborer for the munition factories in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.) Why don’t Japanese think about why they get bombed? Did it fall from the sky out of sudden? without any reason? Why did the bomb choose to be dropped there? To END the war THEY broke out. Personally, It was very disappointing to see the Japanese people’s reaction from the bomb picture, they directly recall their victims only, not the historical context of the situation Koreans are NOT fond of mocking innocent bomb victims in any degree since THEY were the victims during the war period. if BTS would have worn the shirt with that ill intention, Korean would be the first one to leave them.

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